Clyde Tolson

Clyde Tolson (22 May 1900-14 April 1975) was Associate Director of the FBI from 1930 to 1972, preceding Mark Felt.

Biogarphy
Clyde Tolson was born in Laredo, Missouri in 1900, and he graduated from Cedar Rapids Business College in 1918. From 1919 to 1928, he served as a secretary for three US Secretaries of War, and he gained his law degree from George Washington University in 1927 before becoming a lawyer. In 1928, he was hired by the FBI as a special agent, and Director J. Edgar Hoover hired him as his Associate Director. In 1936, they arrested Alvin Karpis, and they also arrested Nazi saboteurs on Long Island and Florida in 1942. Tolson and Hoover became lovers, and Tolson and Hoover remained lifelong bachelors. In 1964, Tolson suffered from a stroke, and he remained frail for the rest of his life. Tolson remained employed in the FBI even after he passed retirement age and was too old for police duty, and he was acting head of the FBI shortly after Hoover's death, serving from 3 to 4 May 1972. Tolson retired afterwards, and he died of kidney failure on 14 April 1975 at the age of 74.